Author: joewitt Date: Thu Dec 11 14:18:54 2014 New Revision: 1644648 URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1644648 Log: Updated details for launching application
Modified: incubator/nifi/site/trunk/content/development/quickstart.md Modified: incubator/nifi/site/trunk/content/development/quickstart.md URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/nifi/site/trunk/content/development/quickstart.md?rev=1644648&r1=1644647&r2=1644648&view=diff ============================================================================== --- incubator/nifi/site/trunk/content/development/quickstart.md (original) +++ incubator/nifi/site/trunk/content/development/quickstart.md Thu Dec 11 14:18:54 2014 @@ -46,8 +46,11 @@ to 8080 is a good start, but on systems `mvn assembly:assembly` will create a tar.gz file in the target directory in `assemblies/nifi`. This tar.gz should contain the full application. Decompressing the tar.gz should make a directory for you containing several other directories. `conf` contains application configuration, `logs` will contain log files, `bin` contains a fairly -bare-bones script for launching the application, `nifi.sh`. Running `bin/nifi.sh` should start the application in -the foreground after trying to detect a Java installation. +bare-bones script for launching the application, `nifi.sh`. On linux (and possibly macos) running `bin/nifi.sh start` +should start the application in the foreground after trying to detect a Java installation. There are scripts to help with +startup on windows as well. The entire concept of how the application will integrate to a given OS and run as an +enduring service is something we're working hard on and would appreciate ideas for. The user experience needs to +be excellent. With the default settings you can point a web browser at `http://localhost:8080/nifi/`